José Díaz-Balart Makes History As He Will Take Over Weekdays At 10 AM On MSNBC

José Díaz-Balart volition beryllium the lone anchor to big newscasts successful some English and Spanish connected broadcast and cablegram erstwhile helium takes implicit the 10 AM weekday slot connected MSNBC.

Via an MSNBC property merchandise provided to PoliticusUSA:

Internationally recognized writer José Díaz-Balart joins MSNBC arsenic anchor of MSNBC’s “José Díaz-Balart Reports.” His programme premieres connected Sept. 27 and volition aerial weekdays astatine 10 a.m. ET. Díaz-Balart volition proceed to beryllium based successful Miami.

With the announcement, Díaz-Balart becomes the lone anchor to big nationalist quality programs connected some cablegram and broadcast tv successful English and Spanish. He volition proceed to anchor “NBC Nightly News Saturday” connected NBC News and instrumentality connected a broader relation astatine Noticias Telemundo, wherever helium volition anchor monthly specials and breaking quality events. He volition besides anchor peculiar sum crossed aggregate platforms, including Peacock. Given his expanded responsibilities crossed the networks, Díaz-Balart volition determination connected from his existent relation arsenic anchor of Telemundo’s nightly newscast “Noticias Telemundo” astatine the extremity of the month.

Díaz-Balart is simply a highly decorated writer who is already known to NBC and MSNBC audiences. Balart is besides precise good known for his Spanish connection interviews of governmental leaders and statesmanlike candidates.

“I’m privileged to anchor MSNBC’s 10 a.m. hr to study connected the issues that substance to each communities crossed America,” said Díaz-Balart. “It has been my grant to service arsenic the anchor of ‘Noticias Telemundo,’ wherever we rigorously screen the astir important quality for the Latino community. I look guardant to this unsocial relation wherever I tin scope antithetic audiences successful English and Spanish crossed the NBCUniversal News Group and Telemundo.”

MSNBC Is Changing The Face Of Cable News

MSNBC President Rashida Jones is making cablegram quality look a batch much similar America. The achromatic antheral domination of the web seat astatine MSNBC is being shifted to a bulk of women and radical of color.

The regular anchors astatine MSNBC see Joe Scarborough, Chris Hayes, Ari Melber, and Lawrence O’Donnell. Chuck Todd doesn’t anchor MTP Daily each day. The remainder of the roster features women similar Stephanie Ruhle, Rachel Maddow, and Nicolle Wallace, and Andrea Mitchell.  An African-American antheral with Craig Melvin’s 11 AM weekday show.  Ayman Mohyeldin is an American national calved successful Egypt, and Díaz-Balart is Latino.

In examination to CNN and Fox News, the MSNBC weekday lineup is overmuch much diverse, which is what viewers were demanding for years nether erstwhile MSNBC President Phil Griffin. MSNBC’s presumption much accurately mirrors its audience, and arsenic the United States moves toward a aboriginal of being a majority-minority country, MSNBC represents the changing look of America.